Time for me to announce I’m starting a new job! My time at Scripted was wonderful. I learned some really good life lessons and understand myself more as an engineer and a person. I’ve discovered I’m really interested in bridging that engineer to the world communication that is so necessary for both internal employees and translating your product to your audience. I’ve shifted from being a mostly backend engineer to a mostly front end engineer (as an aside is anyone else bothered by the fact that the accepted spelling for front end has a space but backend is one word???) and I feel like the topsy-turvy nature of the JavaScript ecosystem allows me to keep experimenting but also not take myself or my fellow engineers too seriously.
I can’t really talk about what I’m doing next as we’re still in a closed alpha. Surprisingly the image above is more of a clue than it seems. I’ll be working as a mostly front end engineer with a very good friend at another tiny startup and this time my goal is to learn. I’m going to be working with some really smart people and I want to soak it all up like a sponge.
Also, I would like to actually post more here. It’s become a bit of a wasteland and I need to figure out how to remedy that. I think my biggest problem is I feel like I need to be super tech professional here and that’s not my life. Well not all of it at least. I also write and knit and play video games and take too many photos of my cats. I tried focusing on that part of me in another place Everything Will Be Amazing but I couldn’t focus on that either. So maybe it’s time to unify. I’ll keep you posted.